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Entries from February 11th, 2010

Guest article on Practical eCommerce

February 11th, 2010 · No Comments · Other

Today, my first guest article was published on Practical eCommerce. Titled “Inventory Management: Use 80-20 Rule“, I discuss the following topics in the article -

  1. Use the 80-20 rule to decide what levels of inventory to carry on which products.
  2. Analyze competitors and listen to customers to choose new products.
  3. Always be experimenting with new products.

I also provide a few tips on sourcing products via Tradeshows and Distributors.

We are very excited to see the Ordoro presence on a popular ecommerce magazine such as PeC. Please give me feedback on the article either there or right here on this blog.

I also want to extend a big THANK YOU to Gary Yorke – the owner of ChildTherapyToys.com. His input was extremely valuable in writing that article.

Also, the entire Ordoro team wishes to thank all you readers for your support via RSS subscription, Facebook and Twitter.

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Ordoro wins the Texas Moot Corp semi finals

February 4th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Other

Last night, we presented at the Texas Moot Corp semi-finals. We did a great job, and we are proud to announce that we advanced into the finals. Ordoro is one of the 5 finalists of the Texas Moot Corp competition.

We had an amazing time doing the 15 minute pitch of our business plan. I started the pitch focusing on the pain experienced by thousands of small business ecommerce merchants. I then introduced the Ordoro solution and talked about how excited our customers were to see the alpha version screens – our focus on usability had paid off. Naruby followed up with an overview of where Ordoro fits in the market place, and talked about all the hard work we did over the past one year to take us to where we are today. Sangram topped it all off with the financials and a discussion about the entire Ordoro team.

The response from the judges was very positive. Every one concurred that Ordoro addresses an important pain in the market and that we have the right team structure to build a great solution. They gave us great suggestions for marketing and also highlighted a couple of areas that we need to focus on. All in all, great feedback from four experienced investor/entrepreneurs.

Now on to the big event – the Texas Moot Corp Finals. Just getting into the Moot Corp Finals itself means a lot to us. We get to pitch in front of another panel of successful businessmen and women. Yet another round of constructive feedback on our business plan. And more exposure within the Austin investor community. And last but not the least, bragging rights.

The entire Ordoro team wants to thank all the small business ecommerce merchants out there who have helped us with all the market research. Thank you for all the early feedback that has helped us build a great product. I know you are waiting for our product release announcement. It is coming soon.

For now, the march is on for February 17. Come cheer for us at the Texas Moot Corp Finals.

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Ahh! the creative blog spammers

February 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · Other

This one is a bit off topic, but we wanted to share it anyway.

We have set the wordpress comments moderation option on this blog so that we get to review/approve all the comments before they are posted. Obviously, we chose this in order to weed out all the spam that gets posted as comments. This setup works fine because currently our comment volume is low. And we get to act on new comments within a couple of hours anyway.

Every day, we find new spam comments. Usually it is the garden-variety spam. The Russian gibberish, the Greek alphabets, and sometimes meaningless sentences like -

Amiable brief and this enter helped me alot in my college assignement. Thanks you on your information.

But occasionally we run into a gem, like this one below, which makes me wonder how creative these spammers are getting. They must be spending a lot of hours thinking up interesting conversations.

My friend and I were recently discussing about how involved with technology our daily lives have become. Reading this post makes me think back to that debate we had, and just how inseparable from electronics we have all become.

I don’t mean this in a bad way, of course! Societal concerns aside… I just hope that as the price of memory falls, the possibility of uploading our brains onto a digital medium becomes a true reality. It’s a fantasy that I daydream about every once in a while.

(Posted on Nintendo DS running R4 DS BB)

The cool thing is that Akismet did trap this one as spam. The cat and mouse game between spammers and the Akismet algorithm is exciting.

Update from the day after: Today this article got indexed by Google and lo and behold hell broke loose. Seeing their text show up on the blog (since I quoted it verbatim in my article), the spammers have been rushing to us like sharks smelling a drop of blood from miles away. They probably think we approved their comment to be published, and wanted to quickly cash in by adding more comments.

We had 42 spam comments in under 30 minutes. I’m really curious on how this is gonna turn out. Honestly, we were a bit concerned about Google giving us bad karma points for quoting the spammy text, but so far all looks well.

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